ROMAN RAY (rray at ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: How does an enzyme lower the activation energy of a reaction and
: therefore causing the catalysis of the reaction????
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The simplest answer would be that enzymes provide a
favourable 'micro-environment' for chemical-bond breakage/formation. A
detail can be found in any biochemistry text-book.
MVS
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